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  • Another Christian Being Offered On The PC Alter?

    We will see....

    A Maryland DJ has refused to work a birthday party for a gay man. ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’

    The national debate about how to balance religious conscience protections and gay equality flared in the large, mostly liberal Washington, D.C., suburb of Montgomery County Friday, when Dani Tsakounis tried to help her brother hire Ultrasound Deejays for a party. An owner of the business told Tsakounis he would not provide the DJ because Tsakounis’s brother, a Silver Spring therapist, is married to another man and the birthday party they are hosting is for their 60-year-old roommate, who is also gay.

    “I just said, ‘We won’t be able to do it, we’re a Christian organization and it would go against our faith, I’m sorry,’” Michael Lampiris, co-owner of Ultrasound Deejays, said Friday.

    Tom Tsakounis, 46, was so upset when his sister told him that he posted the news on his neighborhood listserv, prompting calls of sympathy from neighbors. He also registered a complaint with the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission, which hears cases of alleged discrimination.
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015...happened-next/
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  • #2
    This is nothing. Wait until gay marriage becomes legal (and it eventually will). That's when the shizzle's gonna hit the fan. These people will go out of their way to target Christian businesses and churches just to get them to violate the law.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by seanD View Post
      This is nothing. Wait until gay marriage becomes legal (and it eventually will). That's when the shizzle's gonna hit the fan. These people will go out of their way to target Christian businesses and churches just to get them to violate the law.
      But, but, but...

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      • #4
        Originally posted by seer View Post
        A Maryland DJ has refused to work a birthday party for a gay man. ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’
        Well even the conservatives should be able to agree that this one is just pure unwarranted discrimination plain and simple. The man is not being asked to:
        - Attend a gay wedding
        - Provide services in support of a gay wedding
        - Endorse the idea of gay marriage

        Instead he's being asked to help run a birthday party. Gay people are allowed birthday parties right? Or is there a strong traditional Christian teaching against gay people being allowed to have birthday parties that I'm missing? Is "thou shalt not attend the birthday parties of gay people, for the LORD your God who led you out of Israel declares that gay people do not get to have birthday parties" the 11th commandment?

        It seems exactly analogous to refusing to provide services to an interracial couple - the DJ is objecting to providing his business services for this birthday party on the grounds that he thinks his customer is married to the wrong type of person.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          Well even the conservatives should be able to agree that this one is just pure unwarranted discrimination plain and simple. The man is not being asked to:
          - Attend a gay wedding
          - Provide services in support of a gay wedding
          - Endorse the idea of gay marriage

          Instead he's being asked to help run a birthday party. Gay people are allowed birthday parties right? Or is there a strong traditional Christian teaching against gay people being allowed to have birthday parties that I'm missing? Is "thou shalt not attend the birthday parties of gay people, for the LORD your God who led you out of Israel declares that gay people do not get to have birthday parties" the 11th commandment?

          It seems exactly analogous to refusing to provide services to an interracial couple - the DJ is objecting to providing his business services for this birthday party on the grounds that he thinks his customer is married to the wrong type of person.
          Source: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/06/14/christian-dj-refuses-to-be-bullied-after-turning-down-gay-birthday-party-213857#ixzz3d556Jl00


          The company’s website describes Ultrasound Deejays as a “family-friendly” company whose policy also turns down requests for vulgar music, provocative dancing or strippers and events that involve “fortune tellers, psychics, or magicians"

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          Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
            Source: http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/06/14/christian-dj-refuses-to-be-bullied-after-turning-down-gay-birthday-party-213857#ixzz3d556Jl00


            The company’s website describes Ultrasound Deejays as a “family-friendly” company whose policy also turns down requests for vulgar music, provocative dancing or strippers and events that involve “fortune tellers, psychics, or magicians"

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            And was there any indication that the birthday party would involve requests for vulgar music, provocative dancing/strippers, or events that involve tellers, psychics or magicians?

            I know Ultrasound has a policy saying "We will not be involved in any event involving homosexual celebration or activity." But according to the article, the birthday party isn't for the man who's married to another man. It's for their 60-year old roommate, who is also gay but apparently is not married. So how would the birthday party involve homosexual celebration or activity? Seems to me that the only sense it could fit is if by "homosexual celebration," Ultrasound meant "celebration by people who happen to be homosexual," rather than simply "celebration of homosexuality." And that certainly seems unfairly discriminatory.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by fm93 View Post
              And was there any indication that the birthday party would involve requests for vulgar music, provocative dancing/strippers, or events that involve tellers, psychics or magicians?

              I know Ultrasound has a policy saying "We will not be involved in any event involving homosexual celebration or activity." But according to the article, the birthday party isn't for the man who's married to another man. It's for their 60-year old roommate, who is also gay but apparently is not married.
              The roommate is the former lover of the married man.

              So how would the birthday party involve homosexual celebration or activity? Seems to me that the only sense it could fit is if by "homosexual celebration," Ultrasound meant "celebration by people who happen to be homosexual," rather than simply "celebration of homosexuality." And that certainly seems unfairly discriminatory.
              More info is forthcoming. I wonder if Ultrasound was targeted or not...
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                The roommate is the former lover of the married man.
                But they aren't currently lovers. If it matters that they were once lovers, then for the sake of consistency, Ultrasound should also be refusing to involve itself with events for divorced people.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by fm93 View Post
                  But they aren't currently lovers. If it matters that they were once lovers, then for the sake of consistency, Ultrasound should also be refusing to involve itself with events for divorced people.
                  Why? Not all divorce is immoral.
                  That's what
                  - She

                  Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                  - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                  I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
                  - Stephen R. Donaldson

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                    Why? Not all divorce is immoral.
                    In quite a few common cases it is, Biblically speaking.

                    The same would also theoretically apply for people who at any point in their lives had an affair, or premarital sex, etc.
                    Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by fm93 View Post
                      In quite a few common cases it is, Biblically speaking.

                      The same would also theoretically apply for people who at any point in their lives had an affair, or premarital sex, etc.
                      No. Past sin is not the same as current lifestyle sin.
                      That's what
                      - She

                      Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                      - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                      I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
                      - Stephen R. Donaldson

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                        No. Past sin is not the same as current lifestyle sin.
                        Right, so...since the 60-year old man does not currently appear to be engaged in a homosexual romantic relationship, by what reasoning could Ultrasound justify the decision to refuse something as simple as providing music at a birthday party?
                        Last edited by fm93; 06-14-2015, 08:02 PM.
                        Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by fm93 View Post
                          Right, so...since since the 60-year old man does not currently appear to be engaged in a homosexual romantic relationship, by what reasoning could Ultrasound justify the decision to refuse something as simple as providing music at a birthday party?
                          Again, more details will follow, to be sure. I just cited their policy for informational purposes.
                          That's what
                          - She

                          Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                          - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                          I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
                          - Stephen R. Donaldson

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                          • #14
                            If there was no religious or sexual component whatsoever (or racial component), I bet a spate of prosecutions for not providing personalized business services would be going viral as an example of government overreach.

                            It's not an exact parallel, but frequently, Republican candidates get into the news for using songs by liberal bands for campaign songs without permission, and the bands get furious and refuse permission. (The Dropkick Murphys told Scott Walker to stop because "we literally hate you".) Fans tend to like this. However, for a more exact parallel, what if a candidate tried to book the band to play at the inauguration and they refused? Would that be such an outrage? That would, after all, be a selective denial of labor.
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                            • #15
                              Hang on, let me consult with my sympathy meter...

                              Sorry, looks like we're registering in the "negligible" range.

                              Barring further details that move the event from "birthday party" to "drag show," I'm with fm93 here.
                              Don't call it a comeback. It's a riposte.

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